Composita pilula

No picture of Composita pilula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita pilula itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Composita pilula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CompositaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 15 of 15 occurrencesPermian284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.8 Mya266.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Composita pilula on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

15 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Palmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.26°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°W

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The named rock units Composita pilula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Composita pilula and its relatives

Permian

Where Composita pilula and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Composita pilula, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 15 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Composita pilula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita pilula itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Composita pilula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Composita pilula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itComposita through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976